Is a blind person allowed a scribe in Bank PO Exams?

A: Candidates who are blind/ low vision or locomotor impaired in both hands and both arms can use own scribe at their cost during the written examination.

a) The scribe should possess fewer marks than the candidate appearing at the written examination and not more than 60% marks in his/ her own academic stream.

b) The scribe should not be a graduate of any stream but can be of any academic stream.

c) Both the candidate and the scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking, confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe as mentioned above. In case it later transpires that he/ she did not fulfil any of the laid down eligible criteria or suppressed the material facts, the candidature of the candidate will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the written examination.

d) Such candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for extra time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination.

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